Bludgeon and his crew then leave and use plasma-density charges to blow up the base and leave Soundwave. Hearing this, Soundwave tries to stop them but is overpowered and struck by a weapon that locks him in his alternate mode. Helens as a temporary base and eventually confronts them with the intention of gaining energon from them only to learn that they were actually planning to use it all to resurrect Thunderwing. He learns that Bludgeon, along with Bomb-burst, and Iguanus are using Mt. In the mid-1980, Soundwave was working spying on a hidden group of facsimiles at a construction site who are working to find ultra-energon under Bludgeon's orders. He would watch over everything Bludgeon did on Cybertron and would even continue following him when he went to Earth. Much later, Soundwave was told by Megatron to keep on optic on Bludgeon, who was told by Megatron to search through Shockwave's archived projects to learn what he was working on. He and Starscream would also work together to bust everyone out of the prison in Kaon as part of the second phase in Megatron's plan to take over Cybertron. He's also the one who recruits the seekers, Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp, into Megatron's army at the time, which would eventually become the Decepticons. Long ago on Cybertron, before the war began, Soundwave first appeared to Megatron, when he was just a contender in the illegal gladiator games on Cybertron in the city of Kaon, offering him weapons with the only condition being that he use them as he sees fit. IDW Publishing Continuity Disguised as a cassette player. He mainly used his abilities as a spy to record and send information for the Decepticons, and also to assist him are his mini-tape bots such as Ravage, Laserbeak, Rumble, Frenzy, Buzzsaw, and Ratbat. Saint Hillary erupts he, along with all the Autobots and Decepticons on board the Ark, awakens and he takes the form of a tape deck. Soundwave was among the Decepticons in the Ark when it crash landed on Earth 4 million years ago. Only Megatron's trust in him keeps him safe. Soundwave is, however, often seen as two-faced or untrustworthy to other Decepticons. There have been many versions of Soundwave however, all are very highly ranked Decepticons. Soundwave was created by Bob Budianksy, who created and named hundreds of other Transformers as well. There is also Ratbat who is the least loyal out of Soundwave's mini-cassettes but is intelligent and efficient and was even once the Decepticon leader.

Among these are Lazerbeak and Ravage who act as spies and the brothers, Frenzy and Rumble, who both just love a good fight. He commands his own army of mini-cassette tape troops which he can eject from his chest when needed. Despite only being the communications officer he is one of the highest ranked Decepticon on a par with Shockwave and answerable only to Megatron himself. One of the first members of the Decepticons, Soundwave is one of Megatrons most loyal and reliable troops.

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